Tomer Or

Tomer Or

Personal information
Born 26 September 1978
Haifa
Weapon(s) Foil
Hand right-handed
Height 1.77 metres (5.8 ft)
Weight 79 kilograms (174 lb)
Club CE Melun Val de Seine
FIE Ranking current ranking

Tomer Or (Hebrew: תומר אור‎; born September 26, 1978) is an Israeli foil fencer.[1]

Early life and coaching career

Or is Jewish and was born in Haifa, Israel.[2][3]

Or received his coaching diploma from Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sport in Netanya, Israel, in 2005.[4] He earned an LL.B. in Law and Business from the Interdisciplinary Center, in Herzliya.[4][5] He started his coaching career 2005 at the Haifa Fencing Club in Israel.[4] Since 2012 he is assistant coach at St John's University in New York.[6]

Fencing career

Or won the gold medal at the 1998 Junior World Championship in Valencia, Venezuela, and the silver medal in 1994 in Mexico City, Mexico.[4]

He is a 10-time Israel Senior National Champion.[4] He won gold medals in Senior World Cups in Budapest (2002), Copenhagen (2005), Vancouver (2006), and Havana (2007).[4]

He fenced on behalf of Israel at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, and came in 17th.[1][7]

At the 2009 World Fencing Championships, he advanced to the third round when his scheduled opponent, Mohammed Hussein Ibrahimi, failed to show up, part of a pattern of Iranians not showing up to face Israelis at the competition.[8]

In 2009, he won the gold medal at the 2009 Maccabiah Games in men's foil.[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Fencing – Tomer Or (Israel): season totals". The-sports.org. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Jews in the Olympics: 63 Athletes, 7 Countries". Jewishinstlouis.org. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Tomer Or Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. August 13, 2008. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Tomer Or". Manhattan Fencing Center. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Tomer Or". Fie.ch. September 26, 1978. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Tomer Or". redstormsports.com.
  7. ↑ "Israel at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
  8. ↑ Hipsh, Rami (October 13, 2011). "Fencing / Iran keeps up Israel boycott, forfeits again". Haaretz. Retrieved November 10, 2011.
  9. ↑

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